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in this issue BASELINE BUSYNESS PG. 2 /
CAMPUS ADVOCATE PG. 3 / NEW HOTEL AND DEANS PG. 6 /
ACCOLADES PG. 6 / SWEET CHEER PG. 7 /
SUBVERSIVE ARTS PG. 8
Between the Columns a newsletter for faculty & staff of the University of Maryland
September 2014
Get to Know Maryland’s Big Ten Opponents
PG. 4
MEET THE
Between the Columns a newsletter for faculty & staff of the University of Maryland
September 2014
Get to Know Maryland’s Big Ten Opponents
PG. 4
MEET THE
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Illustration by Catherine Nichols; Catherine Carroll portrait by John T. Consoli2 btc SEPTEMBER 2014
Busier Than Ever? Maybe NotBY DAVID KOHN
You probably think you’re working harder than ever. “Crazy busy” has become the standard response to the question, “How are you?”
Except there’s one problem: Americans’ leisure time is actually growing, not shrinking. That’s according to new research by John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland Population Research Center. In a study released in June, he found that Americans have 30 to 40 hours of leisure time a week, up slightly from last year. Leisure time has increased over the past decade by about 5 percent, he says.
This may not sound right to you, but Robinson, 78, has some background on this: He’s been study-ing leisure since 1965.
Robinson says the increase is largely due to structural changes in American society, as well as a dip in the number of hours people work.
“The two main ways that people lose leisure time are marriage and kids,” he says. “Overall, Ameri-cans are getting married later, and they are having fewer kids.” As much as we love them, children and spouses tend to impose additional time responsibilities, which take away from one’s ability to pursue leisure activities.
So how does he explain the widespread belief that we are more strapped for time than ever before? He points to the strain of Puritanism in American culture.
“It’s a badge of honor in our society to be busy,” he says. “We’re supposed to be busy.”The ongoing study surveys 12,000 people every year, asking them a series of questions about how
they spend their time. This kind of research goes on worldwide, and it turns out that America is neither the hardest-working country (Japan) nor the most relaxed (Holland).
Much of our leisure time is taken up with television, about 20 hours a week on average. However, the survey also found that people don’t enjoy watching it that much. People chose playing with kids and spending time with friends as their favorite leisure pursuits.
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On Their SideDirector works to improve campus environment for sexual assault victims
BY LIAM FARRELL
Until she started volunteering on the night shift for a battered women’s hotline in the early 1990s, Catherine Carroll was anticipating a career in environmental law.
“I couldn’t believe the things I would hear,” she says. “I was shocked.”
Those phone calls of terrifying abuse from partners and indifference from the criminal justice system led her to a more than 20-year legal career working for the victims of domestic and sexual violence.
Since March, Carroll has been the director of the new Office of Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence at Maryland, tasked with making sure it is in compliance with the federal Title IX antidiscrimination statute. Universities are facing sharp scrutiny in this area from the federal government, though UMD was not on its recent list of schools under investigation.
“The whole media attention is long, long overdue,” she says.
In her first few months on the job, Carroll has been focused on developing online training for students that connects sexual misconduct to underlying anger and power issues rather than to substance abuse. She is evaluating material for faculty and staff training as well to provide a “campus-wide, holistic approach” to prevention and intervention.
The criminal justice system has historically been problematic for victims, so Carroll is also working to make sure the same process that adjudicates cheating on a test isn’t used for sexual assault.
“My lens is really more about what we should be doing,” she says. “We’re able to promote better strategies and we can be creative, too.”
So far, Carroll is heartened by what she has seen at Maryland.
“Everyone here really does want to do the right thing,” she says. “People really want to get involved.”
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A newspaper editor took it upon
himself 78 years ago to call this
school the Spartans when he
disliked the other entries in a
contest. Since then, the armored,
puffed-up mascot named Sparty
flexes his teams on.
Like Indiana, the Buckeyes moni-
ker is derived from a nickname
for Ohio residents, but this
school has an anthropomorphic
version. Brutus the Buckeye is
one of the country’s most well-
known mascots.
The Nittany Lions nickname was
born on a baseball trip when a
student wanted to one-up the
Princeton Tigers. The mountain
lion, which once made a home
in Pennsylvania, is the costumed
symbol for the school.
Theories abound for how the
Wolverines got their long-held
nickname, but an attempt in the
1920s to bring real-life versions
into the football stadium was
quickly abandoned. The school
does have its well-known winged
helmets and block M design.
MICHIGAN STATEMICHIGAN
PENN STATEOHIO STATE
GET TO KNOW YOUR BIG TEN MASCOTSIT’S THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA FOR MARYLAND ATHLETICS, and Testudo will no longer try to out-
cheer the familiar Blue Devil or Cavalier. With Maryland’s move to the Big Ten, he—and the rest of
us—should get familiar with a whole new slate of fellow mascots, nicknames and history. So while we
won’t be bumping chests on the court or leading the football team onto the field, it’s best to know
whom exactly we’re rooting against this fall. Here’s a guide to our new rivals.
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Purdue Pete, complete with
spike hammer, is the human rep-
resentative of the Boilermakers,
but the school’s official mascot
is actually a replica train
honoring its engineering and
farming heritage.
This school has gone from the
Purple and the Fighting Method-
ists to the Wildcats, cribbing
the name from an article that
described the spirit of the foot-
ball team in the 1920s. Willie the
Wildcat was originally a much
less huggable bear cub.
The Cornhuskers also earned
their name from a newspaper
writer, once he decided Bugeat-
ers had run its course at the
turn of the century. Herbie the
Husker has been an official sym-
bol of the school since the 1970s.
The Golden Gophers’ name com-
bines the state’s official animal
and the color of a championship
team’s football jerseys. They are
represented by smiling, buck-
toothed Goldy.
The Hawkeyes nickname is
traced back to “The Last of
the Mohicans,” and the school’s
athletic events are roamed
by mascot Herky the Hawk.
The black and gold bird was
hatched in the 1940s by a
journalism instructor.
This school doesn’t have an
official mascot besides its
team name, “Hoosiers.” Don’t
know what that is? Us either.
The term refers to a nickname
of uncertain origin for the
state’s residents.
Known as the home of the Fight-
ing Illini, the school retired its
mascot, Chief Illiniwek, several
years ago and is known mostly
by its striking orange “I” on a
blue background.
Located in the Badger state,
the school adopted the animal
mascot even though the name
was meant to describe how
miners lived in the winter. The
original live badger, which occa-
sionally needed to be tackled as
well, was replaced long ago
by Bucky Badger.
Teams at Rutgers, the other new
kid on the Big Ten block, were
once symbolized by a fighting
rooster called the Chanticleer,
but became the Scarlet Knights
in the 1950s.
ILLINOIS
MINNESOTA
WISCONSINRUTGERSPURDUE
INDIANA
NEBRASKA
IOWA
NORTHWESTERN
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ACCOLADES
Nathaniel Tablante, a
veterinarian and extension poultry
specialist, was a congressional
fellow for U.S. Rep. Sanford D.
Bishop Jr., (D-Ga.) advising him on
agricultural issues.
Siba Samal, chair of the Virginia-
Maryland Regional College of
Veterinary Medicine, was elected
a fellow of the American Academy
of Microbiology.
A professor in atmospheric and oceanic
science, Sumant Nigam was appointed
chair of the American Meteorological
Society’s Committee on Climate Variability
and Change.
Jandelyn Plane won Women in
Technology’s 2014 Social Impact
IT Leadership Award for her
work as associate director of the
Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for
Students program and as an advocate for
underrepresented groups in the field.
The American Physical Society honored
four professors for their achievements in
research, education and public service: Luz Martinez-Miranda, materials science and
engineering; Elaine S. Oran, aerospace
engineering; Edward Ott, physics and
electrical and computer engineering;
and Phillip A. Sprangle, electrical and
computer engineering.
Professor Mikhail Anisimov was elected
to a fellowship in the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers.
Public Policy Professor Thomas Hilde (right), and Lecturer Miguel
González Marcos (left) each
received the Edmond J. Safra
Network Fellowship from Harvard
University to study tax havens and
organized environmental crimes.
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Hotel to Make Home Across From Campus
In a few years, visiting fans, families, scholars and other university guests will be able to stay in the most convenient and luxurious accom-modations ever at Maryland.
The state Board of Public Works in July approved the sale of a three-acre site on Route 1, across from the Mitchell fields, to developer David Hillman, CEO and founder of Southern Management Corp. and funder of the university’s Hillman Entrepreneurs Program. He plans to build a four-star hotel with 276 guest rooms; 23,500 square feet of ballroom, conference and meeting space; retail; and a café, restaurant and bar.
The $115 million project will be the first major step in the redevelop-ment of the downtown College Park business district, with the goal of making the city a top 20 college town.
Groundbreaking is expected to take place next spring, with the opening anticipated by Fall 2017.
UMD President Wallace Loh and men's basketball Coach Mark Turgeon celebrate the university's official entrance into the Big Ten Conference at the July 1 THINK B1G party at Mitchell Field.
Loh photo by Greg Fiume; Anna Yang portrait by John T. Consoli
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ACCOLADES
NEW DEANS FOR PUBLIC POLICY, BSOSTWO SCHOOLS will welcome new deans next month, with Robert Orr (at right, top) assuming the post at the School of Public Policy and Gregory F. Ball (bottom) leading the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Orr has been the assistant secretary-general for strategic planning at the United Nations since 2004, running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee and acting as a principal policy adviser in areas such as climate change, global health and counterterrorism.
He earned a B.A. from UCLA and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Ball is the former vice dean for science and research infrastructure at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His accomplishments there included guiding the construction of the 70,000-square-foot Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory building and creating an undergraduate neuroscience major.
Ball earned a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
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Spreading Sweet Cheer Sophomore’s Baking Business Finds Success On and Off Campus
BY KAREN SHIH ’09
Anna Yang ’17 used to be obsessed with marshmallows. She’d eat them by the bag, at times refusing to take a bite of a meal until her parents let her finish her pillowy treats. Only in high school, when her mom challenged Yang to do some-thing creative with yet another bag of marshmallows, did she discover a new hobby, and possibly a career.
She used them to create fondant (a decorative cake icing), and four years later, she’s got a thriving business called the Baking Spoon.
“It’s scary in the beginning to bake from scratch,” says Yang, who’s learned from online tutorials, cookbook recipes and a ton of trial and error. “Trust me, I’ve seen my sad share of overbaked, flat, too-dense and overinflated cookies and cakes.”
Her creations include a Disney “Frozen”-themed cake, a sandcastle cake and intricate butterfly cupcakes, as well as several UMD ones, like a Big Ten cake for the football team and a graduation cake featuring a fist-pumping Testudo.
The business major tried out some viral marketing right before finals in May, dropping off “Funfetti Cookie Dough Brownie Bombs” in front of random dorm rooms and asking the lucky recipients to give her a shout-out on social media.
“It was probably the best decision I ever made for The Baking Spoon,” says Yang, who gained more than a hundred new followers, bringing her to more than 700 on Instagram.
She lives at home in Howard County, keeping her in business during the school year. She’s limited to just one cake a
week by her mom, though: “She gets mad when I bake because I make a big mess in the kitchen.”
Yang’s cakes range from $100 to $250, depending on size, and she also makes other baked goods. To order, get recipes or see more of her creations, visit thebakingspoon.com.
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Arts Festival Dares Students to Question the Status Quo BY KAREN SHIH ’09
A yearlong slate of unconventional and bold arts programs starting this month aims to have students and other participants leap out of their comfort zones.
“People ask me, ‘What does subversive mean?’” says Adriane Fang, director of the Festival of Subversive Artists and Minds and assistant professor in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS). “It’s a constantly shifting landscape. There are boundaries for me that someone else who has a lower threshold might cross and I’d be offended.”
Throughout the year, artists from across the country will come to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to perform and work with TPDS students, inspiring them to write plays, create costumes, film short videos and more.
These will include Marc Bamuthi Joseph, award-winning poet, playwright, dancer, performer, and social activist who is creating a “Hip-H'opera” about the MOVE Organization, the Philadelphia-based black liberation group; Tia Nina, a local feminist punk rock dance band; and Taylor Mac, a drag queen cabaret performer. In the spring, students can take a class from four artists who will explore issues like censorship in the Middle East and hate crimes against the LGBT community in the United States.
“I hope students will find out what holds them back and question those limitations,” Fang says. “It’s about taking a look at a dominant culture and seeing what your relationship is to it, and then empower-ing yourself to make a change.”